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It was in the early ’60s when I first became acquainted with the luminous writing of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972); I was at a camp in Clinton, Connecticut, attending a week-long …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/3/23
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On Sunday, April 5, 2020, I made my first entry into what I have come to call my “Covid diary.”
Four days later , on Thursday, April 9, I found myself writing about “social …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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2/2/24
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The story of my life – as it is for most of us – is a quest for meaning and purpose on my journey toward inevitable death. Like every one of us, I was born with a one-way ticket, stamped …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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10/13/16
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Alan Metnick’s photography exhibit, “Silence and Stones/Captured by Memory,” continues at gallery (401) at the Dwares JCC through Thursday, April 16. If you haven’t had a chance to visit, it is a must-see. If you’ve already been there, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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4/13/15
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Israel’s new president, Reuven Rivlin, is certainly not a leftist; nor is he a liberal or a centrist. By most accounts, he is a reliably right-wing politician. He is not in favor of the “two-state solution;” he prefers some form of …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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1/2/15
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“I didn’t think he’d do it.
“I really didn’t think he would.
“I thought he’d say, whoa, hold on, wait a minute. We made a deal, remember, the land, the blessing, the nation, the descendents as numerous as the sands on the shore …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/11/14
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recently published “Between the World and Me” (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) is a cri de coeur, an outpouring of heart, an unburdening of soul. Coates, a 40-year-old national correspondent for The Atlantic, has …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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9/3/15
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When American, British, Argentine or any other Diaspora Jews visit Israel, they know that they are in a Jewish place since most of the people living there happen to be Jewish. The language most frequently spoken, read and written is Hebrew – a …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/27/14
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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3/6/22
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“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine in December 1776, during the dark days of our Revolutionary War, our fragile nation only 6 months old.
Today, …
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Rabbi James Rosenberg
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12/3/20
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